Re: Uninformative comment in files.el

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

martin rudalics wrote:
> > > Could whoever installed the following change:
> > >
> > >    2007-12-10  Yoni Rabkin Katzenell  <address@hidden>  (tiny 
> > > change)
> > >    * file.el (revert-buffer): Eliminate overlays and the mark.
> > >
> > > replace the comment "Reset the mark and remove all overlays" which just
> > > paraphrases the code, with a comment that actually explains why we
> > > want/need to do that?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > This is not explained in etc/TODO file.
> >
> > The patch refers to this line in etc/TODO file:
> >
> >    ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is necessary?
>
> I'm afraid the patch installed is overly simplistic.  You can find out
> more by looking at the thread starting with
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
>
> For the moment I'd strongly propose to revert the change and study the
> problem in more depth.

Ok, I've read the thread.  Indeed, the problem is not so simple.

I've just undone the patch in CVS trunk.